If a majority of the coaches of Pleasant Valley high school have their way, there will be no joining the Colonial League.

The Pleasant Valley School board, at its meeting Monday, openly discussed the chance of moving out of the Mountain Valley Conference and into the large Colonial League.

A survey showed that varsity coaches are voting to stay out of the Colonial league by 11 – 2, according to athletic director Jake Percey. And a majority of opinions expressed at the meeting followed suit.

Board members who are leery of any move to the Colonial League mentioned the traditions and school rivalries that would be lost by pulling out of the Mountain Valley Conference.

“The problem we have is we’re a large school,” said Percey.

The school, he said has 850 male students. “We’re not going to get as many power points playing the smaller schools in the Colonial League,” he said, referring to the District 11 school athletics ranking system. Fifty-five percent of the rankings are based on school size. The largest school in the Colonial League is in Bangor.

Others spoke of the tradition of playing other Monroe County schools such as Pocono Mountain and Stroudsburg. “Athletic competition and scholastics is really the face of our district,” said board member Jim Spinola. “I’d really hate to see us lose the traditions of playing the teams we’ve been playing for the last 50 years.”